Sympathy for the Devil

[cornerofmadness]

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As many of you know, there is another woman in Texas with my exact birthdate and name (what ARE the chances) with my same illnesses and for years United Health care had her on MY insurance and did jack shit. And in 2021 when I fell I found out there was a medicare supplement attached to my name (so I knew Other Dana was on SSI) I have fought this for the last 4 years.

So today, I had to call Riverside Hospital because they billed my Blue Cross insurance from 2 years ago. I get them and she says 'oh yes we saw we made a mistake. We've resubmitted it to your EverCare insurance.'

I'm like that is a medicare supplement. I DO NOT HAVE this insurance.

Riverside - oh...really?

Me - really.

I give them my real insurance and ask for the Evercare number. She gives me United Health Care (who owns EverCare) phone number and I'm like thanks but I meant the member number because half the time you call you can't get through the automated system without it.

So I call United Health care and explain why I'm calling. She says 'I have never heard of this. Let me get you to someone better.' She does and I explain it again and say this is messing up MY insurance and Other Dana's too since they keep calling ME.'

She is appropriately horrified and instead of saying I'll look into it and hanging up she says, stay on this line. I'm calling my supervisor. I agree (I have tuesday mornings off) They come back and say 'we can't take your phone number off this account because you're not the actual member BUT will you wait while we call Other Dana?' Fuck yeah I will.

At the end of this not only is my phone number off (and this is what we get for only using phone numbers/birthdays these days) the damn insurance I have the phone number and the name of Other Dana's caregiver at his request so if it gets fucked up again (which it could because again we have the exact same name and birthdate) I can call him and tell him because Other Dana keeps getting denied stuff because they call ME and I tell them I'm not in Texas.

But at the end of this I have a lot of sympathy for Other Dana in spite of all the years of drama because in spite of being the same age with the same illnesses, I'm not in need of a caretaker (my smart ass friends asked 'are you sure?') I don't need home health. She is very obviously incredibly ill and I feel bad about that.

Fannish 50 time.

I wish I had friends in Japan still. Because OMG, Hazbin Hotel is getting its own Maid Cafe in Osaka for a few weeks and there is SO MUCH merch for this both maid cafe merch and kimono merch. And it doesn't look like it'll be available anywhere else. Argh. I would kill for any of it (but especially Husk/Angel in the kimonos)

I admit it, I am into collecting bullshit I don't need but desperately want (in fact today, looking for a lost lab experiment I found a bag of The Crow cards from the 90s movie. I didn't remember I had them and I have NO idea what the hell they're doing at work). If I had room I'd have a room that was nothing but collectibles on display (I have enough of them) Heck my parents have a room like that so I come by it honestly.

If you want to see the merch here are some links

the announcement

her and her twin are high energy but I like this look at the merch

Come On, Angel dressed as an Oidon That is too perfect (no Dana, you aren't writing an AU for this)

Comments

[falkner]

After years of the Other Dana saga, I almost can't believe you finally had someone take this seriously and do their damn job trying to fix it! The whole thing is so This Could Only Happen In The USA that I would buy it if someone told me it's the plot of a Grisham novel.

[cornerofmadness]

I'm struggling to believe it too if I'm honest

ha, I'm not sure people would believe it if this was presented in fiction

[spikedluv]

I'm glad you finally got the insurance taken care of and have a way to contact Other Dana's caregiver!

[cornerofmadness]

me too!!

[shipperslist]

They say that our system that's based on individual social security numbers isn't the safest system out there but I bet it beats name-and-birthday combo... What a hassle!

[cornerofmadness]

we used to do the social security thing when I was seeing patients but no one wants to give that out any more so...

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

That same name business sounds like a nightmare! Poor other Dana, too!

Oh, wow, I don't know your fandom but a maid cafe sounds like so much fun!

[cornerofmadness]

It's been a long nightmare for sure

maid cafes are interesting

[suzume]

Poor other Dana...

Do you have an account at Rinkya or some other international shipping place? Buyee?? (<- don't know much about them, haven't used them)

[cornerofmadness]

It's sad, thinking about how she's so unwell she's unable to care for herself even though we're still in our 50s

Never even heard of that site I'm afraid, kinda afraid to know what the cost of shipping would be

[suzume]

I kind of assume a certain amount of international shipping costs when I'm going to buy anything. I think this might be helpful in calculating costs? (Okay, I can't be 100% sure that will be accessible to you if you're not already a member, but I can dream, can't I?)

My mom sometimes buys things too and then we split the costs.

[cornerofmadness]

sadly no to the link. oh well

understandable. If you're going to incur huge shipping might as well get a bunch. I did that with something i bought from an artist in Spain last year (40$ in shipping alone)

[suzume]

Aww, man. >:| But so it goes...

Ha ha, you totally get me there.

[cornerofmadness]

it's only makes sense